- Title
- The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective: 2017 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections
- Creator
- Sartelli, Massimo; Chichom-Mefire, Alain; Labricciosa, Francesco M.; Hardcastle, Timothy; Abu-Zidan, Fikri M.; Adesunkanmi, Abdulrashid K.; Ansaloni, Luca; Bala, Miklosh; Balogh, Zsolt J.
- Relation
- World Journal of Emergency Surgery Vol. 12, Issue 1, no. 29
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-017-0141-6
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Intra-abdominal infections (IAIs) are common surgical emergencies and have been reported as major contributors to non-trauma deaths in the emergency departments worldwide. The cornerstones of effective treatment of IAIs are early recognition, adequate source control, and appropriate antimicrobial therapy. Prompt resuscitation of patients with ongoing sepsis is of utmost important. In hospitals worldwide, non-acceptance of, or lack of access to, accessible evidence-based practices and guidelines result in overall poorer outcome of patients suffering IAIs. The aim of this paper is to promote global standards of care in IAIs and update the 2013 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections.
- Subject
- intra-abdominal infections; sepsis; peritonitis; antibiotics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1392078
- Identifier
- uon:33335
- Identifier
- ISSN:1749-7922
- Rights
- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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